Natural

The worst natural disaster in the long history of Myanmar was caused by the ominously

The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a bad time to be living along the Gulf

Weather forecasters don’t always get it right – or even agree with each other. So

When is an earthquake not an earthquake? Answer, when it’s a tsunami. Of course that’s

If hurricanes had a motto, Ivan’s would have been ‘boom-bang-a-bang’. For Hurricane Ivan was in

For countless centuries the world’s largest adobe building was the Bam Citadel in the southeast

In August 2003, Europe struggled under the highest temperatures ever recorded in the northern hemisphere.

The Republic of North Ossetia, in the northern Caucasus, is home to the Kolka Glacier,

In August 2002 central and eastern Europe were devastated by floods the like of which

Mozambique is situated on the southeastern coast of Africa. Between 1977 and 1992 it was

Vargas, in northern Venezuela, lies on the Caribbean Sea. Separated from the capital, Caracas, by

The pretty village of Galtur, situated in the Austrian Tyrol, has long been a popular

On October 17 1998, a catastrophic flood took place in southern and central Texas. The

In January 1998, North America fell victim to an absolute corker of an ice storm.

The Saguenay region of Quebec has suffered several natural disasters, including a landslide in 1971

The American Midwest has suffered severe heatwaves throughout the years, but the one that struck

Located in the Kansai region of Japan, the trading city of Kobe was the scene

In mid-March 1993 a powerful depression worked its way up the eastern seaboard of the